In 1961, shortly after Israel put Adolf Eichmann on trial—“the architect of the Holocaust”—Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram began a series…
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In his inaugural address, President Obama said he would “restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to…
No matter who we voted for in the presidential election, many of us—perhaps most of us—felt a patriotic pride in…
For the next few days, I’m going to share with you my thoughts about some of the things that matter…
Your eyes may glaze over when you read the headlines about stem-cell research—debates over moral quandaries, federal funding, and legislative…
In the 1998 film Gattaca, the hero says that he will never know what possessed his mother to put her faith…
Proponents of intelligent design never know when they might be led away to the ideological chopping block. Take, for example,…
You’ve heard the old saw before: Science is one thing, religion another—that on one hand, science deals with hard facts,…
The late Stephen Jay Gould at Harvard used to describe religion and science as occupying “non-overlapping magisterial authority,” or what…
